The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-16

buzz-saw and had his scalp friShtfully LAGER
ated He was picked up for dead, but is
coming out all right. The saw lost tooth
in the tusSle, and was otherwise 80 badly
damaged that it Is laid up for repairs.
| E.W. Spier's hominy and bono mill at Or
! ando is gong up RAPIDLY The building is
25x50 feet in siss and will be 32 feet high.
/ This is She first mill of this kind in the
State, and viii add materially TO our local
trade. Ground bone is very fine fertili-
zer and Mr.. Spier VIII, no doubt, have
good demand for it.
j. p. Martin, of DeFuuiak, who returned
| from Nebraska last Saturday, is enthusiastic
over the prospect OF a woollen mill A
meeting viii be held in the near future, and
all citizens are urgently invited to attend,
for the purpose OF forming a stock COM
p@ly. The probable cost ranges, according
to size of the plant, from $4,000 to So, 900.
A Keller pear, on exhibition at the drug
store of Mr. H. Y. r. Schrader, at Talla-
hassce, weighs one pound and nine ounces,
and measures very little less than ID inches
around. This pear came from the grove of
Col. John Bradford of BradfordYille, Leon
county, and is the boss pear of Florida.
There were three others in the same cluster
nearly as large.
At st. Andrews Bay, j. H. Smith, a IA
year-old boy, had his hand terribly lacerated
by an edging saw at Meats mill. The
thumb, first and middle fingers were severed
and the other fingers torn off at the first
joint, The people of the place are indig-
nant at the refusal of DR.. Jansenius to
attended the wounded boy unless he received
his fee beforehand The boy lay for four
hours, suffering terribly, before DR.. Kester,
who was away, arrived and dressed the
hand
Last Sunday dog belonging to o. Futch,
who lives near Chuluota, spent great por-
ton Of the day barking up a tree near his
masters house, in way decidedly unbe-
coming dog of moral tendencies, and who
had been raised under religious influences.
Toward night Mr.. Futch, becoming tired of
the conduct of the dog went out and made
an inspection, when he was astonished to
find that the dog had discovered a bee tree,
and was doing the best he could TO make the
fact known.
Reinie Winkelmann, of Oakland, left for
the Gulf last week to bring home a wagon
load of mullet. The journey there and back
will cover nearly 200 miles. At the Gulf
the fish will cost only 116c. piece, and 900
of them can be hauled on a one-horse wagon.
Around Oakland they are worth from &c. to
Sc. piece, and many teams were once en-
gagged in this profitable business. The
Orange Belt railway, having tapped the
Gulf, will cause those trips TO become things
of the past.
Cynthia Sevey, aged ~ years, of Orlando,
was stung on the neck last Monday morn
ing by hideous and most peculiar looking
insect. The girl was dangerously affected
by the sting, but DR.. Lawrence brought her
out all right. The strange creature is called
saddle worm" and is shaped like a beech
nut, about an inch long, covered with fine,
downy, slate-colored feathers, spotted with
yellow. Six of its legs are provided with
ones near its mouth. DR.. Lawrence will
preserve the specimen as a curiosity.
Titusville Star. We received Tuesday
evening from Mr.. Gardner S. Hardee, Of
Rockledge, an orange grown on his grove,
which caps the climax for size over any
thing in the State or elsewhere The variety
is known as the London navel. 1t is fifteen
and a half inches in circumference, and
weighs exactly two pounds and two ounces
This specimen is not grapefruit, or pome,
or any other overgrown variety of the citrus
family aside from the orange, but is a bona
fde orange in every respect. 1t is the
largest, by far that has been recorded in our
State.
The Secretary of the Interior has re-
quested the Department of Justice to in
struct the proper District Attorney to insti-
tute suit against William S. Dorsey,
of Bombay, and j. n. Daniels, of
CHlpley, 10 recover Une value OF IlJ rail-
ROAD ties, which were cut by the former
from public lands, and delivered through
the latter to Division Superintendent
Marsh, of the Louisville and Nashville rail
road, and paid for at the rate of 20c. per
tie He suggests that if the attorney deems
it expedient to make the railroad party
to the suit he shall do so.
Jacksonville Times Union. Too much
credit cannot be given Mr.. B. F. Dillon,
manager of the Western Union Telegraph
Company in this city, for the prompt man
ner in which the news of yellow fever at
Palatka was received at this city, which
enabled the Board OF Health to cut off all
communication with that place before a
single person had time to come through
after the news was made public in Palatka
that man had died from yellow fever
| As soon as the Times Union reporter heard
of the facts and went to his office. Mr.
| Dillon went himself to the instrument and
sent the message asking for information.
and himself took the reply. Also, when
| Dr. Mitchell went to the telegraph Office to
| inquire more thoroughly into the situation,
| Mr.. Dillon gave the matter his personal at
| tentiona He not only rendered, in this
way, most valuable and timely service, but
has also rendered the Board of Health the
free use of the wires during the emergency.
! His action in the matter should be most
heartily appreciated by all.